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Day 15 AI plan

Okay, so I haven’t been very good at regularly reporting on my daily progress through this plan. However, I am proud to report that I have stuck with the plan despite my sporadic blog posts.

The diet wasn’t really that different from my regular one… okay, I guess it is, but it was easy for me to switch.

My regular diet had a lot of hidden calories. Hidden only because I refused to count them.

I wouldn’t say I’m now obsessed with calorie counting, but let’s just say that I’m highly aware of how many calories a food choice has in store for me. And that makes it really easy to say no to a lot of things that otherwise I would’ve said, “well, it’s less than 20 (or 30) percent fat, so ‘go for it’ “.

Now, I look at things I used to eat without a care and think: what was I thinking before? No wonder I couldn’t consistently get rid of this gut.

The exercises have been a little difficult.

I say that because I’ve worked out for many years- just not always consistently. I also pride myself on learning the optimal techniques, how to work to failure and use negative reps (letting a weight back down in an exercise very slowly even though your muscles are screaming at you to stop).

This adonis index plan has me doing some weird exercises that not only have I never done before, but nobody else in the gym is doing anything like it.

I am somewhat self-conscious when I do some of them because I know people either think I don’t know WTF I’m doing… or that I’m on to some exotic training plan and maybe I”m being pretentious (though with some of the light weights I’m using on some of these, I doubt I look all that impressive).

Still, the plan is having a pretty big effect on my body- even after only two weeks!

One thing I’ve always said to myself is that – while you should dedicate significant effort to each workout — no single workout is really making a difference. The difference comes from a collection of workouts that you string together. One at a time. Building into a week. Then a month. Then a quarter. And a year.

A lot can happen in a year. A lot SHOULD happen in a year. Now it’s time to make that stuff happen!

2 Responses to “Day 15 AI plan”

1. Jules Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 2:23

   I’ve been trying to lose weight for years. Actually I have over and over again. It gets old. I’m going to try another diet plan, but I’m not sure which one. Have any of you tried the Every Other Day Diet or the Diet Solution Program? If so, how did it work for you?

2. Drew Says:
   July 21st, 2010 at 13:10

   I believe the above post is just SPAM, (so I removed the affiliate links to the sites mentioned) but the sentiment is one I hear often.

   People in search of the “best diet” are doomed from the start.

   Diets do NOT work. What does work is making lifestyle changes that you can live with.

   The only thing that works is eating a healthy, balanced and varied diet (limiting processed foods and foods that are very dense in calories and fats), getting plenty of liquids and exercising regularly.

   THAT works and is really the only thing that works. Going on a restrictive calorie diet for a short period of time, only to return to bad eating habits later will INCREASE your ability to gain and retain excess body fat.

   It’s a bit more complex than that, but that is the heart of the solution– the rest is just detail.

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